Disease prevalence data from the OFA (USA)

Post date: Apr 16, 2012 6:1:49 PM

The Orthopaedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) has several databases of diseases, two of which include results for Dachshunds. Their disease prevalence data are as follows:

1.1%

5.3%

The OFA site also lists DNA tests available for Dachshunds:

    • Narcolepsy

    • Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis

    • cord1 PRA

    • Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency

Of these, only cord1 PRA is recognised in the UK as being of significance to our Dachshunds.